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Rat
| Author: | James Patrick Kelly |
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Tachyon Publications, 2014 Ace Books, 2001 Golden Gryphon Press, 1997 W. W. Norton, 1993 Tor, 1991 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1986 |
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| Book Type: | Short Story |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Hugo-, Nebula-, and SF Chronicle-nominated Short Story
In a hard-edged cyberpunk future, a courier is has stolen a load of the most dangerous, most dazzling drug ever invented and is smuggling it into New York City. Pursued by a hired hit woman disguised as a young girl and a federally-appointed vigilante, he must find his way through the mean streets of Manhattan to his lair. He is ruthless, amoral, and a rat. Not just figuratively, but literally: a two-foot-long, walking, talking rat. Hearing is believing.
This story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1986, collected in Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (1997), and anthologized in Future on Fire (1991), The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993), Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001), and The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 (2014). It is included in the collection Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly (2016).
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